Word: roam
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...happy result of emptiness aloft is that the airlines, in a new space race, are giving the passenger more room to stretch out and roam around in during flight. At least three lines are offering five-across (instead of six-across) seating on conventional 707 and DC-8 jets. Last week American Airlines started advertising its huge new lounge area with a stand-up bar in the tourist-class compartments of the jumbo...
...hundred black elected officials throughout the country in 1965; there are 1,771 now -and the black electorate has only begun to assert its strength. Local leadership is growing everywhere in conflict over local issues; in the virtually all-black central area of Brooklyn, black citizen security patrols roam at night because residents feel the police are doing a poor job. "We will have order in this community, one way or another," says a local leader...
Most often Peking attacks Moscow indirectly. Thus Radio Peking last week broadcast a statement from the Australian Communist Party branding Russia's rulers as "the new czars. They have restored capitalism in Russia. Their armies occupy other countries, their navies roam the world in the direct tradition of imperialism." The statement might have been attributed to someone from Down Under, but Moscow was well aware that it reflected the thoughts of the people next door...
Elephant Stress. Serengeti's 5,600 square miles and the surrounding 10,000 square miles are home to an estimated 1,500,000 big game animals-as many as roam the rest of Africa combined-but the lush woodland is being turned increasingly into savannah. Neighboring farmers burn off trees to create pasture land, elephants topple trees. It had been believed previously that the elephants felled trees simply for food. Croze argues that the real reason is a destructive urge born of overcrowding. Other scientists believe that, as elephants are driven into the park for refuge, their overall number...
...cost $150,000-probably the largest sum ever budgeted for a one-minute commercial and more than the cost of many 30-minute programs. Never one to do things by halves, Freberg will stage a premiere for the commercial next week at the Beverly Hills Theater, where spotlights will roam the sky as formally dressed celebrities alight from Duesenbergs and Rolls-Royces...